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 Previous issues: (ESPAÑOL)

Number 1 / Sep 28, 2007
  - Which is the proper driving position? (1)
  - Using automatic transmissions
  - What is a vehicle policy good for?
Number 2 / Oct 4, 2007
  - Which is the proper driving position? (2)
  - What to do when the engine overheats
  - Evaluate and train drivers
Number 3 / Oct 11, 2007
  - How to brake correctly (1)
  - How to distribute load in trucks
  - The reasons why road research is necessary
Number 4 / Oct 18, 2007
  - How to brake correctly (2)
  - Tips to conserve the battery
  - Auditing vehicles
Number 5 / Oct 25, 2007
  - How to brake correctly (3)
  - How to maintain tires in good conditions?
  - Managing vehicle risk
Number 6 / Nov 1, 2007
  - How we adjust car mirrors?
  - How to prevent the engine from overheating?
  - Accidents study
Number 7 / Nov 8, 2007
  - Precautions when driving at night
  - Fifth Wheel and King Pin (1)
  - Trip planning, a combining tool
Number 8 / Nov 15, 2007
  - Braking with air brakes
  - Fifth Wheel and King Pin (2)
  - Repair shop audits
Number 9 / Nov 22, 2007
  - The overtake manoeuvre (1)
  - Tire maintenance (1)
  - 24hs driving safely recording
Number 10 / Nov 29, 2007
  - The overtake manoeuvre (2)
  - Tire maintenance (2)
  - Taking responsibility for the hired driving
Number 11 / Dec 6, 2007
  - Driving when it rains
  - Understanding tire markings
  - Access control
Number 12 / Dec 13, 2007
  - Driving with Anti Lock Braking System
  - Coupling system safety
  - Safe driving, Values and Culture
Number 13 / Dec 21, 2007
  - When it's better to avoid driving?
  - Safety chains for coupling systems
  - Management rules and certification
Number 14 / Dec 27, 2007
  - Overspeed brakes' trailers
  - Air conditioning maintenance
  - Where to start from
Number 15 / May 14, 2008
  - Driving Definition
  - Clutch maintenance
Number 16 / May 28, 2008
  - The Attitude's influence when driving
  - Gear box oil
Number 17 / Jun 11, 2008
  - Driving through curves
  - How to choose the best tires
Number 18 / Jun 25, 2008
  - Anxiety effects in driving
  - Maintained shock absorbers, safety vehicles
Number 19 / Jul 10, 2008
  - Driving backwards
  - Prepare your vehicle for cold weather
Number 20 / Jul 23, 2008
  - Sleeping well, better driving
  - Exhaust fumes colour diagnosis
Number 21 / Aug 6, 2008
  - How to ascend and descend slopes safely
  - The engine cooling system
Number 22 / Aug 20, 2008
  - Dysfunctional beliefs in women and men driving
  - Safe Load in Tank Trucks
Number 23 / Sep 3, 2008
  - Driving in the fog
  - Safe lights
Number 24 / Sep 17, 2008
  - Driving in the fog - Second part
  - Hydraulic brakes safe maintenance (1)
Number 25 / Oct 1, 2008
  - Bad habits and their influence in behaviour
  - Hydraulic brakes safe maintenance (2)
Number 26 / Oct 15, 2008
  - How we learn to drive
  - Reducing tire air pressure
Number 27 / Oct 29, 2008
  - Crossing junctions
  - Dangerous alterations and modifications on heavy vehicles
Number 28 / Nov 12, 2008
  - Driving and distraction
  - Common transmission failures
Number 29 / Nov 26, 2008
  - Two different ways of understanding "Driving"
  - Safe lights
Number 30 / Dec 10, 2008
  - Preventing distractions
  - Failures easy to be detected
Number 31 / Jan 14, 2009
  - "Accident", its definition
  - Electronic Stability Control
Number 32 / Jan 28, 2009
  - Fatigue, the driving enemy
  - The steering on vehicles
Number 33 / Feb 11, 2009
  - Perceptual phenomena
  - Steering regulation
Number 34 / Feb 25, 2009
  - Car drivers and bikers, an intelligent coexistence
  - Progress in steering systems
Number 35 / Mar 11, 2009
  - Wrong horn usage
  - How the clutch works
Number 36 / 25 Mar, 2009
  - Driving in snowy roads
  - Clutch maintenance
Number 37 / 8 Abr, 2009
  - Understanding signposting
  - Expiring dates
Number 38 / 22 Abr, 2009
  - Rage control
  - The importance of the engine's torque when driving (1)
Number 39 / 6 May, 2009
  - Can we improve our driving techniques?
  - The importance of the engine's torque when driving (2)
Number 40 / 20 May, 2009
  - Driving and antidepressants, a dangerous combination
  - Correct 4x4 transmissions usage
Number 41 / 3 Jun, 2009
  - The attention degree can be improved
  - Maintenance: the key to extend the engine's service life
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Info Manejo June 25, 2008
 number 18
We are sending you the 18th INFO MANEJO's issue, where you will learn the influence of anxiety in driving and about how to realise if the shock absorbers are deteriorated.

We also invite you to visit our web site where you will find previous INFO MANEJO issues, in their Spanish and English versions.

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   Anxiety effects in driving
Anxiety is a normal reaction to stressful situations that help us to stay focused or react cautiously in scenarios that demand us to be alert. When anxiety is excessive, whether it's caused by internal or external factors, it inhibits us instead of benefiting.

Driving today in our streets implies being exposed to an endless number of situations that challenges our capacity to face stressful situations. Some drivers have bad habits, or do not comply with traffic laws, the increasing number of vehicles, plus personal problems, might cause our anxiety levels to overwhelm us. This has negative consequences, because our responses will be de-adaptive, and could result in a dramatic reduction of our productivity and interfering in our quality of life.


Anxiety affects our way of driving. It is showed through irritability in front of any scenario, groundless fears of a disgrace, panic, among others. Our body reacts by not being able to relax, palpitations, nausea and breathing difficulties.

It's important to learn to identify what the symptoms of an anxiety state are because it's possible to control it, and therefore, prepare ourselves to start the trip with no complications whatsoever. Anxiety coping techniques are easy to learn and very useful, they can be used before or during a trip. For example, relaxation techniques, proper breathing, and challenging negative thoughts, to name just a few.

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    Maintained shock absorbers, safety vehicles
It is important to learn the shock absorbers functioning and some tips of their maintenance, as they are a vehicle safety element. The shock absorbers integrate the light and heavy vehicle's suspension system. They work cushioning the subsequent bounces after passing over irregular surfaces.

How they function?

They are hydraulic devices with a piston that slides inside a cylinder filled with oil. Some holes with their valves allow the fluids to circulate through both parts of the cylinder, cushioning the oscillation produced by the suspension springs or elastics.

The worn out

Time or fatigue caused by the accumulation of kilometres of work may influence in the shock absorbers' performance: the parts in friction wear out and the oil loses its quality density and viscosity. One inconvenient is that water, salt or dust might enter where the oil is and could cause leak of hydraulic fluid.

Drivers adapt their way of driving to the progressive shock absorbers wear and to the lack of stability that this implies. Generally, we are not aware of the fact that we drive with the shock absorbers in bad shape, but this increases the wear of the vehicle's different mechanic parts.

Worn out shock absorbers generate:

+ More distance to brake

+ ABS reduces its effectiveness

+ Less grip when turning, specially in wet floor

+ acquaplanning at a lower speed

+ Less tyre and other suspension elements wear

+ Comfort and sickness diminishment

+ More probable to lose control if carrying a trailer

How to realise We should be alert to different signs that might indicate a deterioration of the shock absorbers:

+ The car's front part bends when braking and the bodywork balancing

+ Lights oscillate in night driving (only in light vehicles)

+ Irregular tyre wear

+ The car oscillates more than once if we push down the vehicle

+ Shock absorbers deformed, with dents and oil leaks

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